The effects of quality of diet on labor productivity and population growth in India
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"The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest on the part of economists in the relationship between health and economic development. In the following pages it will be seen how, in the poorest regions of the world, disease and malnutrition are believed to be retarding economic progress. Labor productivity is said to be suffering in these areas not only because workers are currently underfed or sick, but because they suffered the same conditions during their formative years. This is believed to have prevented them from achieving their full intellectual, physical, and emotional potential. If the human population is one of the most important economic resources of any country, in order to achieve economic development, the quality of this resource must be improved. This could be the result of direct investments in health or merely the long-run consequence of investment in other forms of capital. A simultaneous relationship exists between health and income in that although health is said to affect income, income also affects heal th. This simultaneous relationship implies the existence of multipliers. These multipliers operate through what in this paper will be called the "income links". The "positive" income link refers to the mechanism whereby an improvement in income, resulting from an improvement in health, will itself result in a further improvement in heal th. The "negative" income link is an income contracting multiplier that results from an income induced population growth. Whether the income contracting or expanding multipliers will come out "victorious" will depend on the size of these multipliers and on the size of the exogenous variables. No attempt will be carried out in this study to calculate these multipliers owing to data deficiencies."--Background.
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